{"product_id":"9781685891756","title":"City of the Sun","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn modern-day Hollywood, a wisecracking copywriter uncovers the deadly secret of a legendary 1904 movie that was never finished . . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Binnie Bernhardt, stalled in her career and unlucky in love, gets a life-changing assignment at Paramount Studios to develop a feature called\u003ci\u003e City of the Sun, \u003c\/i\u003eshe knows that her film is going to be about a 1904 Hollywood movie called \u003ci\u003eCity of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e that was never completed. What she doesn't know is the diabolical reason why the 1904 film wasn't finished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this multi-era historical novel, we join Binnie on her wild ride between present-day Los Angeles, and the film’s 1904 New York, Hollywood and Berlin locations, as she becomes more and more enthralled with \u003ci\u003eCity of the Sun’s\u003c\/i\u003e cast of characters, who are trying to: 1) make the first American feature picture and 2) perfect poison gas for the upcoming world war. Except, not everyone knows about (2).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a rival producer is murdered and the Binnie's project falls apart, she impulsively sets off to Berlin to fulfill another dream, to finally learn to speak German. But in Berlin, she discovers that the story of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eher film and the story of her life still have surprising—and deadly—connections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCity of the Sun \u003c\/i\u003eis about the movie industry before the beginning, when Hollywood was just empty sunlight and no one could imagine what was coming. It’s about how pictures get made. And unmade. The irresistible appeal of murder. And the unquenchable lust, in every era, for a great story.","brand":"Victoria Shaun","offers":[{"title":"Melville House |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2079-01-02","offer_id":46391205921023,"sku":"9781685891756","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b7c82a77-dab6-471b-9e55-e25c3471f6cc.jpg?v=1733598568","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781685891756","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}